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Community of Practice Supports

Adopting a 1:1 model requires sustained individual and full-faculty commitment to change. Teachers at every level of readiness -- Early Adopters (Explorers), Early Majority (Pioneers), and Late Majority (Settlers) -- have key roles to play, and need to find ways to communicate and collaborate together.

Professional development, supported by consultants, or structured by a pre-packaged solution, can initiate this cultural and organizational change. However, to sustain local capacity for ongoing innovation, faculty must share with and learn from each other, not as part of an external professional development initiative but as standard collaborative practice.

There are four domains of activity associated with Communities of Practice: Informal Collaboration, Shared Knowledge, Group Activities, and Shared Knowledge Management. Going121 cultivates each of these, by relying on a formal course to initiate and support small and large group process and discussion, and engaging Course Mentors for facilitating knowledge sharing between teachers in various ways.

Going121 initiates elements of collaborative practice as sustainable patterns to persist afterward. These include (but are not limited to):